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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jay Tribick wrote:

> The resource limits are fine for protecting against things
> like fork() rabbits etc. but for some reason the above
> overrides them.

I just get "grep: memory exhausted" and my system is fine.

This is with 3.0-current as of a few days ago.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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